MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gaurang mean?
Gaurang joins gaura, fair or pale-golden, with aṅga, limb or body. The whole Sanskrit adjective describes a light or golden body and later acquired a devotional use in eastern India.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गौरांग
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଗୌରାଙ୍ଗ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gaurang in Indian usage
18,546 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (88.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,086 records (11.2%).
- Recorded as male: 16,460 records (88.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 8,791 |
| 1950s | 1,649 |
| 1960s | 2,196 |
| 1970s | 2,321 |
| 1980s | 1,990 |
| 1990s | 1,042 |
| Other decades | 557 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 18,546 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, gaurāṅga, p. 370,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.